Since you are in NH, drive on down to Boston and talk to the nice folks at Sam Adams. They gave me a bunch of free beer for a little get together I had several years ago (10?) and said they would have given MORE but they had already hit their "budget" by sponsoring the Volvo Horse Jumping in VT that year. But show them some pictures of boats with good sail graphics, like Tommmy Bahamma, or something like that, and tell them that THOUSANDS of people on the BEACH will see it, and you can't even BUY a beach front bill board like that! Show them the pictures of the Heineken sponsored boats.

BTW, Budwieser does sponsor the Sarasota Labor Day regatta, big truck with taps, free Bud, even the Bud Girls in Bikini's were there!

But you have to get to the guy who writes the checks and show him how cool it is to have his logo out there on the beach every weekend.

Water? Powerade is sponsoring the Tybee. Talk to Gatorade, or Coke, get a Dasani sponsorship. And what about Red Bull? I thought I saw their stuff on a Tornado sails.

I think the decrease in drinking at regattas is more due to the increse in DWI fines than anything else. I know I will only have two if I have to drive home later. But if I'm staying over, no limits! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />